Improvement in label-fasteners



' G..R.D0ANB. LABEL FASTWEB.

Patented Aug. 2 4, 1369.

lwrllu No; 94,038l

naar. ,aaa-t- CHARLES'ii.. DOANE, .or BRooKLYN, D., riavv-v YORK.'

Letters Paten'tzNo'.' 94,088, ila'ted August 24', 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

ne a kamm am I, CHARLES n. Dorst, of Brotklyn, E. D., -in the county of Kings, and'in theState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Label-Fasteners; and do hereby declare that the following Yisa full, clear, and exact description `thereof, reference beingphad, to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure 1 isa plan view of my improved fastener as it appears-'When cut fronrthe plate; l

Figure 2 is arperspective yiew, showing it as ready for use witlrthe points' bent outward; and

bFigures 3 and 4 are front andv rear views, respec tively, 'of -the same, Aasused for. securing price-tags or labels to fabrics. 4 v Letters of like name 4and each of the figures. y Y

My invention relates to a class of devices used "for securing labels or price-cards to textile fabrics; and It consists inthe employment ot' a -plateof sheetmetal, having partially eutfrom the centre thereofv two diagonally-tapering or pointed strips, which, being bentv outward at a right angie with said plate, may he used for peiforating the card and cloth, and when bent inward will firmly bind the same togetl1er.t-he open-` kind refer vto like` pruts in Ving 'thus formed iusaid plate serving to exhibit tigiues, words, onotlier characters, placed upon the Vcard beneath.

In the' annexed drawing, A represents an oblong plate of sheet-metal, having the central portion .thereof perforated by two parallel longitudinal cuts, connected together by means 'of adiagonalcut, (as seen in iig, 1,) so as to produce two pointed strips, a a., which are attacked to said plate only at theirbase or ide ends.

Thestrips or vprongs a a. being bent.outward at al right angle with the surface of the plate, (as seen' in.

fig. 2,) the fastener is ready for use, and is applied in fthe following manner: v l

The price-card; ticket, or label, being placed upon the fahriesto which it is to be attached, the prongs are pressed through hothrartielcs, and hent inward and downward,` (asl-shown `in fig. 4,) iirmly binding said l Aeardaud cloth together'.

. As seen in iig. 3, the opening B, in the plate, lellby the prongs, serves 'to exhibit the figures, or other characters, upon the card, which figures are preserved fromheingsoiledalr otherwise injured by said plate,y the sinrface of which is slightly higher than that of:

the card'.m p

This device supplies a want long felt by merchants and others, as it enables price-cards, labels, & c.', to' be secnrelyatmched to fabrics and preserved i'ronr all liability to injury, and it is believed that when known, its general usefvlill he certain.

Having of myinvention, v

The within-described label-fastener, consisting oi`- the plate A, having partially out therefrom the diagonally-pointed strips a. and u., so as to leave in the centre thereof the opening l, substantiallyr as and for theV purpose shownJ- In testimony that .I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this I251th 'day of lJuly, 1869.

. CHAS. R1. DOANE,

and desir-cto secure byLet- Witnesses J oHN McCann," J Aeon Hnn'rz.

thus fully setv forth the nature and merits 

